The Children's and Young Adult Collection (CYAC) is a small teaching and browsing collection that support students in the School of Education, as well as children and young adults in the CU and wider Boulder communities.
The American Music Research Center is the oldest center for the study of music of the American Continents in the United States. Founded in 1966 by Sister Mary Dominic Ray, the Center was located at Dominican College, in San Rafael, California, until 1989. That year, through the efforts of then...
When the University of Colorado was established in 1876, very little of Boulder extended south of Boulder Creek and the campus was placed on a short grass prairie slope hundreds of yards south of town. In 1885 there was a photo taken of a carriage on "9th street", a dirt...
Alice Oelwein was born on June 15, 1934 in Pocatello, Idaho. In Wisconsin, Oelwein married Donald G. McDonald on August 21, 1960. While Donald G. McDonald was finishing his service in the Air Force, the McDonalds' moved to Pasadena, California where Donald G. McDonald finished his work in a Jet...
Spring is upon us! Find some flowers blooming in CU’s Archives, in the Seville Flowers Collection . Seville Flowers was a professor of botany at the University of Utah from 1936-1968 and his collection contains class lectures and notes, manuscripts, and drawings of specimens from that time. Yes, that is...
In 1948, luminaries in politics, economics and medicine gathered on the CU Boulder campus for a forum that was supposed to be a one-shot tribute to the budding United Nations. The 12 events on UNESCO, atomic energy and Palestine proved so popular, however, the university invited Howard Higman, a sociology...
In honor of National Library Worker Day and CU’s Student Appreciation Week, we would like to recognize the amazing students we have been lucky to work with in the CU Boulder Archives. From student assistants to graduate fellows, our students have been pivotal in making our collections available through projects...
Jennifer, as the photo archivist for the University Libraries, tell us, what does a photo archivist do? JS: I primarily work on preserving and providing access to photographic and audio/visual materials in the CU Boulder Archives. I manage the collections that are primarily composed of photographs and also help other...
Scene from the Conference on World Affairs, circa 1950. Celebrating its 70th anniversary, the Conference on World Affairs is a year-round unit of the University of Colorado Boulder, offering events without admission fees to the Boulder community, students, and the public. Their most popular event is CWA Week, which starts...
James “Jim” Zarichny was a lifelong activist in the labor, civil rights, peace, and socialist movements. During his undergraduate career in Michigan, he was put on probation for distributing leaflets, sentenced to prison (for a day!), and eventually expelled for his Communist Party membership. After a few years working at...
Dr. James W. Bell was born in Strafort in 1855. He attended the University of Toronto (BA), and the University of Leipzig (MA & PhD). Bell received the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Leipzig. He wrote his dissertation on emigration and was the first recipient of...
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